**Sustainability and Economics**

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> **Alexandre Bosco de Oliveira** Professor of Agriculture Plant Science Department

Federal University of Ceará, Brazil

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X Preface

**Chapter 1**

**Provisional chapter**

**Multi-Analytical Interactions in Support of Sugarcane**

**Multi-Analytical Interactions in Support of Sugarcane** 

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.71180

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distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

**Keywords:** soil microbes, biogeochemical processes, greenhouse gases, soil

management, harvest management, ecosystem sustainability

The risks of sugarcane management on soil microbes and their relationships with soil physicochemical factors and biogeochemical processes have not been described from an integrated perspective for different agronomic practices. Here, we provide a platform for multi-analytical interactions between ecologists analyzing the soil microbes at multiple ecological levels and geoscientists measuring the release of greenhouse gases and the physicochemical soil factors including labile fractions from soil organic matter in tropical sugarcane management systems. We compile the benefits and risks of nutrient management and soil amendments as well as of crop residue and harvest management in sugarcane soils on belowground microbial life and biogeochemical processes mediated by soil microbial communities, and we demonstrate that the massive planting of the crop brings environmental risks that include a potential impact on tropical soil ecosystem sustainability. We emphasize that soil management and harvest management are critical for supporting the sustainable development of biofuel production

**Agroecosystems Sustainability in Tropical Soils**

**Agroecosystems Sustainability in Tropical Soils**

Carolina Braga Brandani, Camila Bolfarini Bento, Andrea Sibila B. Escanhoela, Juliana Cristina Ramos,

Carolina Braga Brandani, Camila Bolfarini Bento, Andrea Sibila B. Escanhoela, Juliana Cristina Ramos,

Leticia Pedroso Ramos, Hélio Danilo Quevedo,

Leticia Pedroso Ramos, Hélio Danilo Quevedo,

Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

Acacio Aparecido Navarrete, Leonardo Machado Pitombo,

Acacio Aparecido Navarrete, Leonardo Machado Pitombo,

Caroline Sayuri Nishisaka and

Caroline Sayuri Nishisaka and

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.71180

Janaina Braga do Carmo

**Abstract**

in tropical areas.

Janaina Braga do Carmo

**Provisional chapter**
